Life and health scientists

Hans Renata

Hans Renata is an Indonesian-born organic chemist and professor at Rice University, known for chemoenzymatic C–H functionalization and concise enzyme-enabled syntheses of complex terpenoids and steroids.

Hans Ris

Hans Ris (1914–2004) was a Swiss-born cytologist and electron microscopist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, best known for demonstrating that chloroplasts contain their own DNA.

Hans Rudolf Brenner

Hans Rudolf Brenner is a molecular neurobiologist and emeritus professor at the University of Basel, known for research on how nerves form and stabilize the neuromuscular junction.

Hans Rudolf Herren

Hans Rudolf Herren, born 1947, is a Swiss entomologist whose Africa-wide biological control of the cassava mealybug saved an estimated 20 million lives, winning the 1995 World Food Prize.

Hans Schreiber

Hans Schreiber is an immunologist and Professor of Pathology at the University of Chicago, known for research on tumor-specific antigens and T-cell receptor therapy in cancer immunotherapy.

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Hans Selye

Hans Selye (1907-1982), Austrian-born Canadian endocrinologist, father of stress research; proposed the 1936 general adaptation syndrome (alarm, resistance, exhaustion), named stress and glucocorticoids, wrote 39 books, never won the Nobel Prize.

Hans Spemann

Hans Spemann was a German embryologist, professor at the University of Freiburg, who discovered the organizer effect in embryonic development and won the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Hans Thoenen

Hans Thoenen (1928–2012) was a Swiss neurobiologist best known for cloning BDNF and studying CNTF, and director of the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Munich from 1977.

Hans Ussing

Hans Ussing (1911–2000) was a Danish physiologist and biophysicist at the University of Copenhagen who founded the quantitative study of epithelial transport, devising the flux-ratio equation and the Ussing chamber.

Hans Wedel

Hans Wedel (born 1940) was a Swedish cardiologist and biostatistician in Gothenburg, professor at the Nordic School of Public Health, known for the 4S and SOS trials.

Hans Wigzell

Hans Wigzell is a Swedish immunologist known for work on natural killer cells and transplantation tolerance, and rector of Karolinska Institutet from 1995 to 2003.

Hans Zellweger

Hans Zellweger (Hans Ulrich Zellweger, 1909–1990) was a Swiss-American pediatrician and University of Iowa professor whose patients led to Zellweger syndrome being named for him.

Hans Zinsser

Hans Zinsser (1878–1940) was an American bacteriologist and immunologist, the Charles Wilder Professor at Harvard Medical School and a leading authority on epidemic typhus, best known for Rats, Lice and History.

Hans-Dieter Klenk

Hans-Dieter Klenk (1938–2021) was a German virologist who established that proteolytic cleavage of viral surface glycoproteins activates infectivity, explaining influenza pathogenicity; he led Marburg's virology institute from 1985 to 2007.

Hans-Reimer Rodewald

Hans-Reimer Rodewald is a German immunologist who heads the Division of Cellular Immunology at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg and received the 2019 Leibniz Prize.

Hans-Rudolf Wiedemann

Hans-Rudolf Wiedemann (1915–2006) was a German pediatrician who independently described Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome, a congenital overgrowth disorder, in the 1960s, directed children's clinics in Bonn, Krefeld, and Kiel, and was elected to the Leopoldina in 1969.

Hans‐Christoph Diener

Hans-Christoph Diener (born 1951) is a German neurologist who led neurology at Essen from 1989 to 2016, founded Germany's first stroke unit, and researched migraine.

Hans‐Georg Rammensee

Hans-Georg Rammensee, born 1953 in Tübingen, is a German immunologist known for MHC peptide presentation research who led immunology at the University of Tübingen and co-founded immatics and CureVac.

Hans‐Guido Wendel

Hans-Guido Wendel is a physician-scientist and cancer biologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, known for showing that eIF4E acts as an oncogene.

Hans‐Henrik Parving

Hans-Henrik Parving was a Danish physician-scientist, professor at Rigshospitalet and long attached to Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen, who showed early blood-pressure lowering and RAS blockade slow diabetic kidney disease.

Hans‐Joachim Anders

Hans-Joachim Anders, born 1967 in Göttingen, is a German nephrologist, Professor of Nephrology at LMU Munich, and head of its renal division, known for research on lupus nephritis and crystal-induced kidney injury.

Hans‐Joachim Schmoll

Hans-Joachim Schmoll is a German medical oncologist who led cancer research at Hannover and Halle, developed colorectal cancer treatments, and wrote ESMO consensus guidelines, winning the 2020 ESMO Award.

Hans‐Michael Dosch

Hans-Michael Dosch is an immunologist and senior scientist in neurosciences at SickKids in Toronto, known for his 1992 proposal that a bovine milk protein triggers insulin-dependent diabetes.

Hans‐Olov Adami

Hans-Olov Adami is a Swedish physician and cancer epidemiologist, trained as a surgeon, who led Karolinska Institutet's Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics from 1997 to 2008.

Hans‐Peter Hartung

Hans-Peter Hartung, born 1954, is a German neurologist and neuroimmunologist who led the Düsseldorf neurology department from 2001 to 2020 and led the 2002 mitoxantrone trial for progressive multiple sclerosis.

Hans‐Uwe Simon

Hans-Uwe Simon (born 1958 in Eisenach, Germany) is a German immunologist and pharmacologist known for research on eosinophil cell death, and president of Brandenburg Medical School in Neuruppin since 2021.

Hans‐Werner Mewes

Hans-Werner Mewes is a German bioinformatician who built the MIPS genome databases, led bioinformatics for the European yeast genome project, and became TUM professor emeritus in 2017.

Hao WU

Hao Wu (吴昊) is an American epigeneticist and Associate Professor of Genetics at the University of Pennsylvania, known for mapping how TET enzymes reshape DNA methylation.

Hao Yu

Hao Yu, also known as Yu Hao (俞皓), is a Singapore-based plant biologist at the National University of Singapore known for work on flowering control in plants.